Pages

Accolades

A work in progress, this is a partial list of our accolades and awards...

·

Both Lisa and Tom earned the title of MNEC by the New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) in 2010. The MNEC designation was awarded for their achievements in photography and for their significant contributions to photographers in New England through lecturing, teaching, judging, and through other administrative activities in photographic organizations.

·In 2015 Lisa was awarded NECCC’s prestigious HonNEC, a title awarded for superior leadership in the operation of our Council and superior photographic leadership, lecturing, judging, and teaching in the New England area and for her tireless efforts to promote the photographic arts. A part of her certificate read… “with her commitment and vast knowledge of photography, Lisa epitomizes the concept of the dedicated professional.”

·Hamden Photographer Earns Awards at Northeast District Photographic Competition. Two photographs created by Lisa Cuchara of BREA Photos, of Hamden, CT, recently won awards at the PPA Northeast District Photographic Competition. Two of Lisa's photographs ("Red-Eyed Green Tree Frog" and "Red Chair in the Prison") won "Seal of Approval" awards at the Northeast District Photographic Competition held May 20-21 2014.

·2015. Two of Lisa’s images won merits in the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) IPC (International Photographic Competition)

·2016. Five of Lisa’s images won merits in the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) IPC (International Photographic Competition)

oThree of those five earned an additional merit and a spot in the Loan Collection. 1007 (of 5,700 total submitted entries) were selected for the esteemed Loan Collection—the best of the best.

oThe Loan Collection images will all be published in the much-anticipated "Loan Collection" book and over 200 selected General Collection images will be published in the "Showcase" book by Marathon Press

oAll accepted images will also be on display at the International Photographic Exhibition at Imaging USA, held in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, Jan. 8-10, 2017.

oIPC involves PPA members from across the globe now and is not a competition playground: this level of competition (the IPC) actually involves two judging. The first one determines if your images are merit-worthy (that’s industry-speak to say you made the first cut). If they are, you earn a second judging, which could possibly earn you an additional merit and a spot in the Loan Collection (our way of saying that your work is the “best of the best”).

2016 Lisa

1) Connecticut Professional Photographers Association (CTPPA)

a) Treskunoff Award (for the highest total point score for the 6 prints entered at the CTPPA convention) (second year in a row)

b) Photographer of the Year 15-16
i) Based on the total accumulated points) from all four quarterly competitions
ii) Art Tech/Electronic Imaging (ART/EI) category
(1) Third year in a row
iii) Unclassified category (based on the total accumulated points)
(1) Third year in a row

3) 36th George W. Glennie Nature Salon a) "Tree Frog in a Jack-in-a-Pulpit" won a merit award in the 36th George W. Glennie Nature Salon. The 36th George W. Glennie Nature Salon had 798 images from 80 clubs, representing 7 countries and 21 states in the US. The award-winning images as well as approximately 1/3 of the top scoring images are accepted into the Glennie Nature Salon.

2) New Haven Camera Club
(1) Image of the Year for “Ambilobe Chameleon Bug Zapper”
(2) Class A competition for “Ambilobe Chameleon Bug Zapper”

2015 Lisa

1) Connecticut Professional Photographers Association (CTPPA)
a) Photographer of the Year in the Art Tech/Electronic Imaging (ART/EI) category (based on the total accumulated points) from all four quarterly competitions

b) Photographer of the Year in the unclassified category (based on the total accumulated points) from all four quarterly competition

c) October 2015 CTPPA Best in Show, Creative for "Frog on Flower”

d) Best in Show, Creative, for “Barn with Star Trails and First Light”

e) Treskunoff Award (for the highest total point score for the 6 prints entered at the CTPPA convention

f) Court of Honor Winner for ART/EI

g) Court of Honor Winner for unclassified category

h) Best in Show in the Creative category

i) First place in the Creative category

j) BWC Printmakers Award "Most Creative" ART/EI image

k) Sunset Award (for the "Best print in Exhibition" (selected by the judges from the top ten scoring images)

a) 2014-2015 Photographer of the Year (based on the total accumulated points) from all four quarterly competition for
i) Creative/Unclassified (Lisa)
ii) Art/EI in the Art Tech/Electronic Imaging (ART/EI) category (Lisa)

Our 2nd book: The Frog Whisperer

Order our Frog book http://tinyurl.com/lisatom-frogs

Follow Us by Email

TOPAZ PLUGIN

Topaz Plugins 15% off We just love, love, love their products. Use Clarity or Adjust on the majority of my images. Enter the discount use code breaphotos for 15% off Topaz products. http://tinyurl.com/topaz-cuchara

Hunts Photo and Video

New England's Largest Photography Retailer.

Hunts Photo

A pdf file containing links to the gear that we use (and discounts), can be downloaded here: http://tinyurl.com/cuchara-gear
We purchase our photo gear from Hunts Photos – they are big enough to have what you need yet small enough to help you find and get what you need (and they stand by their products). Contact Alan Samiljan (asamiljan@huntsphoto.com or 781-462-2383) and let him know that you attended a class or a program or workshop with us (or you read our blog) and he will give you a discount on the gear that WE use. Hunts Photo 100 Main St. Melrose, MA 02176 (781-662-8822).

Favorites

About Us

We are passionate about our photography (we even met in a camera club). We have presented programs at NHCC, NECCC, Greater Lynn, PSA, and to various other camera and nature clubs across the New England region. We also judge photographic competitions, teach various photo and photoshop workshops, have had several successful gallery exhibitions of their work, had photographs in Adirondack Life, Birder's World, Wild Bird, the WCC wolf calendar and on the cover of paperback novel.
We love any chance to take pictures. We appreciate the world around us and embrace the challenge of interpreting what our eyes and heart see via the camera lens. Nature photography (birds, landscapes, flowers) gives us a chance to appreciate the "everyday miracles" that surround us.
We also love the challenge of photographing people, babies, weddings, etc. We feel honored when we are photographing a wedding - privileged to be witnessing such a sacred moment in the lives of two people.
We can be reached via email: BREAphotos@comcast.net

Disclaimer

Lisa and Tom of BREA Photos LLC provides this material for your informational and entertainment purpose only. Our sites do allow for reader feedback, but we can not be held responsible for all of their content. Lisa and Tom of BREA Photos LLC do moderate and we will remove anything that is deemed inappropriate. Readers agree not to post intentionally mean or harmful comments, upload virus, spam, or anything illegal. Lisa and Tom of BREA Photos LLC can not be held responsible if something like that does happens to occur. We do sometimes provide links to external websites for informational purposes as a convenience to our readers, but we have no control over them. We try to ensure that the websites linked and any other links from this website contain "safe" content for everyone, but be aware that some sites may contain explicit and other potentially offensive material due to the subject matter of the photographs exhibited. Users should contact the external website with questions or concerns regarding its content. The content of a linked website may change at any time; if you find a link that is broken (or inappropriate) please contact us.